Re: crash at infinite recursion

Hans Aberg <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:12:45 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hugs.bugs
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At 13:31 +0200 2003/10/14, Felix Hummel wrote:
>Hugs98 Version: Nov 2002 crashes when evaluating the following line
>
>    let x = x+1 in x
>
>Of course this line is quite stupid, but none the less the interpreter
>should not crash...

This is not a bug, but a feature: :-)

It is up to the each implementation, typically the OS to pick up memory
overflows.

The MacOS pre-X version Pablo and I made has some code installed that
resets it when memory overflows.

  Hans Aberg